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2019-08-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-

A $25B US counter-drug smuggling operation quietly thrives far south of the border

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-20 08:27|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Fine except absurdly huge amounts of drugs still get thru. Going to guess everybody from the guys on these neato planes to the mex coppers have a daily list of who's paid up and who isn't.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-20 09:24|| 2019-08-20 09:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't know about the ICE P-3s, but the Real P-3s have 8 wing hard points that could handle Zunis for a little '6 O'Clock High' action; just sayin......

Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-08-20 09:58|| 2019-08-20 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 More drugs that come through, the lower the price, the lower the price the less criminal activity needed to fund them

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-08-20 10:49|| 2019-08-20 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 But there is an optimal volume / price balance point. And the people collecting the bribes are not altogether rational in their future expectations. And the people wanting other people's drug turf are even less rational.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-20 11:10|| 2019-08-20 11:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Fine except absurdly huge amounts of drugs still get thru. Going to guess everybody from the guys on these neato planes to the mex coppers have a daily list of who's paid up and who isn't.

We've been seeing stories like this in the news for as long as I can remember and yet there has never been a shortage of illegal drugs on the street. I don't believe for one minute that compassion for poor immigrants is the reason why so many in Congress refuse to secure the border.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-08-20 11:48|| 2019-08-20 11:48|| Front Page Top

#6 So Mexican law enforcement intercepts the drugs and then exports them to the US themselves?

Posted by Glenmore 2019-08-20 12:00|| 2019-08-20 12:00|| Front Page Top

#7 I remember years ago the Lyndon Larouche booth at a gun show: Big poster of Queen Elizabeth. Underneath it said "World's Biggest Heroin Dealer." I'm definitely no fan of the Larouche nutters, but the poster made me smile cynically anyway. If you doubt that the Boosh clan wanted to be (and still wants) a piece of that action, go ahead and vote for 'em...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-20 12:24|| 2019-08-20 12:24|| Front Page Top

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